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Winter Fitness Persuasive Essay

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Winter is a great time to get outside and start some outdoor fitness training because when you are cold you burn more calories trying to stay warm. Everyone knows that if you want to lose weight you need to burn some calories and winter is a great time to do it. If you are cold your body will speed up your metabolism to help keep it warm and burn more calories in doing so. The trick when you get started with this is not to be drawn into eating high fat calorie dense foods that we tend to eat in winter and to still be sensible about not training outdoors in the rain.

Imagine getting to the start of summer and not having those four to six kilograms of extra body fat to burn off to feel good about your figure. Imagine how much better your heart and circulatory system will be if each year you maintain a healthy body with a great diet all year round. …show more content…

When you become less active your muscles atrophy (shrink) and your metabolism slows down. Unlike most animals that hibernate we don’t fast for the winter, we do become inactive but we keep eating. Our body fat is our natural insulation but with modern housing, clothing and transportation we just don’t need to put on some winter weight however the natural inclination is still there. For some people they just eat because they are bored others eat to deal with emotional stress if you combine that with a natural inclination to eat high fat energy dense foods and drop your activity levels to become more sedentary then you are going to store

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